90% visitors go to Dunhuang for enjoying grottoes art, so the Number one
recommended souvenir in Dunhuang are products about grottoes art.
Books about Grottoes:
Here
is the main square of Mogaoku Grottoes, on the left side of the
memorial archway， you will find the reference room and post office.
You
could buy books about grottoes on the book store or reference room in
different grottoes: Mogao Grottoes, Yulin Grottoes,Western Thousand
Buddha Caves and Eastern Thousand Buddha Caves.
The books intruduce
you the grottoes from all parts, such as: painting and sculpure arts,
buddism grottoes and sociology, grottoes archaeology, grottoes and silk
road, etc.
Paintings about Grottoes:
The
painting you could buy from night market to souvenir shop. You could
choose which one you prefer to. And except traditional Chinese realistic
painting, woodcut paiting is another choice.
Post Card about Grottoes:
Buy
a beautiful post card of grottoes and mail it back home with local
postmark such as Mogao grottoes postmark, is a really treasure gift to
your friends and yourself. If you worry about the post cart getting
lost, you could buy post card and request post officer to stamp postmark
on them.
Stainless Steel Mirror about Grottoes:
Stainless
Steel Mirror about Grottoes is a new choice as gift. It is a small
stainless steel mirror with grottoes paiting on the back; you could take
them home very easy. Not hart to find them in night market, different
stalls has different style mirror, some quality are better than others.
Except products about grottoes, you could also by
populus diversifolia wood stamp which is a type of three represent desert here.
